“Until now I had to be patient”

The only shot that beat Mathew Ryan throughout the game was a goal disallowed to Brais. Exempt from any hint of controversy due to the clarity of the play, the offside had the effects of poetic justice that favors heroes. The one delivered by Ryan could have been the loudest coup of authority that is remembered in the contemporary goal of the Real.

The substitute goalkeeper, anyone in the world who wants to get rid of his band, is obliged to watch the repertoire he offered Ryan in Balaídos. It was a superlative exercise in self-improvement. A colossal fight against the elements. The triumph that crowns the best. To the winners.

A commandment in the Decalogue for substitute goalkeepers is to resist giving up. Whoever renounces fighting with the owner, with all the intrinsic respects for healthy competition, is condemned to eternal reserve. A gesture that can play against the main protagonist himself, due to the danger that the Remiro on duty let your guard down. The Navarrese’s maximum alert is guaranteed, given Ryan’s position. Perhaps new from now on, in case Imanol appeals to the bet for the one who has deserved to continue under the lintel for the merits contracted.

Impossible reactions

Ryan It was won in Vigo that there are those who are surprised if they do not play the derby on Sunday. He has earned, by hand, to remain a starter with a hero performance.

Imanol, the coach who refuses to give away minutes, awarded Ryan a leading role. The Australian’s response was consistent with the attitude that led him to discuss the position of a good Remiro. Ryan does not compete with a coarse goalkeeper, to say the least, but with a modern element that contributes and that becomes a convinced bet of the club. Nothing more and nothing less.

It could have been the same fortitude that led him to Ryan to save two miraculous pieces of furniture. The two biggest stops of the six that decided the game. The two in which he rose ipso facto as soon as he stopped two pitches. The rejects that were stopped by the Australian. In the rest he exhibited more virtues: positioning, reflexes, technique, strength and security.

The recital did not go unnoticed for the best defense of the Real in Vigo. A Aritz that enhanced Ryan’s figure with a precise summary: “He has freed us from a good one.”

That Ryan is a club footballer was clear in his later impressions: “The most important thing is the result of the group.” The goal, “very happy”, confessed that “until now he had to be patient”. Ryan He explains that “the goalkeeper’s position is more difficult and different” and launches that “I always try to have a good attitude when these opportunities come.”